📚 verb • entry_id 56566
hold to account
Meanings (ES + gloss)
llamar a capítulo • responsabilizar
To require a person to explain or to accept responsibility for his or her actions; to blame or punish someone for what has occurred.
While Harley had been in no way responsible for Pelton's murderous attack upon Yesler, public opinion held him to account.
[W]hatever they decided to do out there in the wilderness meant thousands of dollars to the stockholders somewhere up in God's country, who would some day hold them to account.
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